Applying abilities

To apply your ability to a character in WCS you need to instantiate an ability class providing a Character Class Instance.

note

If you want to get the Character Class Instance from a model its applied to you can use a special static method provided by WCS: Character.GetCharacterFromInstance().

info

If you want to apply/remove multiple abilities at the same time, consider looking into movesets.

Let's modify our character file/script to apply our ability:

TypeScript

character.ts

import { Players } from "@rbxts/services";
import { Character } from "@rbxts/wcs";
import { Attack } from "shared/attack";

Players.PlayerAdded.Connect((Player) => {
	Player.CharacterAdded.Connect((CharacterModel) => {
		// apply the wrap when character model gets created
		const WCS_Character = new Character(CharacterModel);

		// apply our freshly made skill
		new Attack(WCS_Character);

		// destroy it when humanoid dies
		const humanoid = CharacterModel.WaitForChild("Humanoid") as Humanoid;
		humanoid.Died.Once(() => WCS_Character.Destroy());
	});
});

Luau

character.lua

local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")

local WCS = require(ReplicatedStorage.WCS)
local Attack = require(ReplicatedStorage.Attack)
local Character = WCS.Character

Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(Player)
    Player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(CharacterModel)
    	-- apply the wrap when character model gets created
        local WCS_Character = Character.new(CharacterModel)
		
	-- apply our freshly made skill
	Attack.new(WCS_Character)

        -- destroy it when humanoid dies
        local Humanoid = CharacterModel:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
        Humanoid.Died:Once(function()
            WCS_Character:Destroy()
        end)
    end)
end)

note

In order to remove an ability from a character you got to call Destroy() on its instance. To get the instance from the name/constructor you can use the following WCS APIs: Character:GetSkillFromConstructor(), Character:GetSkillFromString()